Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:18:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA & money
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> Yes.  At 1st Friday September Bob reported:

> "Bob (having arrived when SMOFcon was being queried) reported that
> we have $898.48 in our main account, and - about 40K - in our World
> Fantasy account"

Sigh.  Were those really hyphens?  They were supposed to be quote
marks.  I was trying to be sophisticated and have them appear as
distinct open and close quote marks.  I know they look ok in IE,
Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, and Lynx, always displaying as
either distinct open and close quote marks, or as regular ASCII quote
marks.  What were you using that rendered them as hyphens?

Also, he said that during August's First Friday, not September's.

I don't understand why there are still two separate accounts, and why
one is always reported to the penny, and the other one never is.  But
we've been assured that both are real.

As to what to do with it, why do anything, other than end some of the
more onerous austerity measures?  With my personal savings, I chose
to spend very little, and in retrospect this turned out to be a wise
choice, as I've had almost no income in the past three years.

Speaking of which, until recently I had thought my membership in
Capclave was comped, as it was the two previous years, due to all the
work I do for the conventions and for WSFA.  I plan to make a motion
tonight that those of us who wrongly thought we were comped be allowed
to buy a Capclave membership for whatever the lowest price ever
offered was.  Since that's what I, at least, would have paid for it
had someone told me I wasn't comped in time for me to buy it at that
rate.  Similarly with SMOFcon.

I plan to continue spending lots of time doing work for WSFA,
Capclave, and our other cons.  But since WSFA is now wealthier than
I am, I don't think it's reasonable to ask me to also make financial
sacrifices for WSFA.

Speaking of time, the WSFA Journal online is finally old enough to run
for Congress.  That's right, 25 full years.  By the end of next month,
I expect to have the entire second series online, after which I'll
start on the large Don Miller WSFA Journals.